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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, January 29, 1987

40-Across : Mongrel

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,596
Across
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Trevino, Watson et al. : PROS
5
Wading bird : STILT
10
Sunday event for some : MASS
14
Goddess of youth : HEBE
15
Baseball's Big or Little Poison : WANER
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Writer Wiesel : ELIE
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Via's kin : ITER
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Get on a soapbox : ORATE
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Certain facts : DATA
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Tell it as it is : LAYITONTHELINE
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Bean and Welles : ORSONS
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Medical suffix : EMIA
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Rock star : STING
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Moss Hart autobiography : ACTONE
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Short haircut : BOB
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Part of 45 Across : EISENHOWER
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___ apple : ADAMS
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Mongrel : CUR
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Brought to bay : TREED
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"It's Too Late" singing star : CAROLEKING
45
White House monogram : DDE
46
Certain laughers : HYENAS
47
Pentateuch : TORAH
50
Numeric prefix : OCTA
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Eats away : ERODES
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Unruffled : COOL
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Island in the Firth of Clyde : ARRAN
62
Porridge pot : OLLA
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"Battle Hymn ... " composer : HOWE
64
Della from Detroit : REESE
65
Maine, e.g., to Pierre : ETAT
66
Word of regret : ALAS
67
Seaport in S Sweden : YSTAD
68
Blind follower : DATE
Down
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Van Dine's Vance : PHILO
2
Do a new paving job : RETAR
3
Carries out : OBEYS
4
Comics like Chaplin : SERIOS
5
Actress Kurtz : SWOOSIE
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Mountain lake : TARN
7
___ the beginning : INAT
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River in Hades : LETHE
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Surgeon of a kind : TREEMAN
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Intercessor : MEDIATOR
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Pres. Arthur's middle name : ALAN
12
Place : SITE
13
Coral or Red : SEA
21
Blaster's material : TNT
22
Illumination, in Bonn : LICHT
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Sleuth Carter : NICK
27
Astronaut's garment : GSUIT
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Was indebted : OWED
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Poverty : NEED
31
Ground, in Berlin : ERDE
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One of the B's : BACH
33
Singer Anita : ODAY
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Uncovered : BARE
36
Cube inventor Rubik : ERNO
38
Glasses not worn by the masses : MONOCLES
39
Not taut : SLACK
43
Sea arm : ESTUARY
44
Made verdant : GREENED
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Part of a circle : ARC
49
Emulated Santa : HOHOED
51
After, in Arles : APRES
53
Fourth Greek letter : DELTA
54
Ostentatious display : ECLAT
55
Ape Hans Brinker : SKATE
56
Anagram for loop : POOL
57
Hawkeye State : IOWA
58
Waste allowance : TRET
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"Every cloud ___ silver ... " : HASA
60
Half of a dance : CHA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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